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PROPERTY FROM THE COONEY-CHAPMAN FAMILY TRUST
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A GILT BRONZE FIGURE OF BUDDHA
18th century
The standing figure attired in garments of flowing Udayana type For a similarly dressed and posed figure in the Asian Art Museum
holding his hands in the varada and abhaya mudras of bestowal and of San Francisco, see Ulrich von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes,
fearlessness. 1981, pp. 552-553, no. 158E (24.1cm high). Also see the slightly
4 1/4in (11cm) high larger example offered in our former San Francisco show rooms, 10
September 2015, lot 8002 as well as lot 57 in our New York sale of 17
$4,000 - 6,000 September 2014.

All, in turn, stand in a long line of images associated with the legendary
first image of Buddha made during His lifetime by King Udayana
of Kausambi. For a discussion of its evolution from Gandharan
prototypes, see Denise Patry Leidy, ‘Notes on a Buddha Maitreya
sculpture dated 486 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,’
Oriental Art, vol. LV, no. 3 (2005/6), pp. 22-32.

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